Some hospitals have needed to quickly erect portable buildings to expand their capacity, to meet the coronavirus outbreak. This in turn has created a requirement to expand the scope of CCTV systems so control room operators can monitor and react to any suspicious activity in the vicinity of new buildings.
New Cross Hospital, run by the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, provides 700 beds and employs near 9500 staff, and is the largest teaching hospital in the Black Country. A need to install a 4K camera over 300 metres from the hospital’s control room initially seemed daunting, in terms of the cost of laying the network cabling normally needed to send high definition images from IP cameras.
JKE Security have had a long term working relationship with the Trust. Dan Mather, director of Derby based JKE said: “Apart from the cost of the engineering work and the disruption caused by installing the new cabling, it would also have taken several days to achieve. We clearly needed to find a much simpler and cost-effective solution which would enable our clients to take full advantage of the superb quality images captured by 4K cameras and, if necessary, pass evidence of any wrongdoing to police.”
Dan Mather sought advice from Smart R Distribution, the Haverhill based specialist electronic security products distributor. They were able to offer him an assurance that their own brand 602POE-2P single port PoE Ethernet Extender would be able to support a new 4K Wisenet PNP-9200RH dome camera, to transmit the IP images over the hospital’s coaxial cabling. The Smart R 602POE-2P single port PoE Ethernet Extender can transmit data over any two-wire cable, and with the ability to handle bandwidth of up to 200Mbps, is more than capable of coping with the transmission demands of the Wisenet 4K camera.
Dan Mather added: “Although we did not source the camera from Smart R, it could not have been easier to connect it to the Ethernet Extender. It was truly a case of plug and play, with both devices installed, configured and working within half a day!”
Paul Smith, Head of Security and Car Parking for the Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust said: “It is essential during this challenging time that we are able to continue to provide a secure and safe working environment for all our heroic colleagues who are so compassionately caring for people who have contracted COVID-19. I have been impressed with how quickly various companies within the electronic security supply chain have been able to come together and use their combined expertise to provide us with an effective and cost-effective solution.”
